NGL, your art skills are a huge part of the value of your channel. The topics are great too of course. As far as RUclips geologists I've seen so far, you have the best freehand diagrams by far.
I used to work for a copper refinery and we would refine the Cu/Au/Ag& PtGrp metals out of "copper" anodes from places like this. The copper anodes did not draw much attention in shipment they they were too heavy to steal however they were up to 4% Au sometimes or 4% Silver. As an engineer I would represent the company when we sampled these things to determine the value and settle up. The dollar amounts in a 100 ton lot were staggering. Imagine a railcar gondola filled with 800 pound anodes containing 4% Au. One of my task was to determine how much of this stuff we could feed into the copper plant each day without causing electrochemical complications. This was in the before times and the calcs were done by hand.
Thanks! I try to make them interesting, but I admit it's hard for me to get out of the deepest geology depths to put together a good story. All of my career work has been on movement and change with respect to geology, so it's more about visuals and seeing spatial changes for me. I'll keep at it, though! Thanks again!
@@TheGeoModels the deep geology depths are great with me. I think you do a great job at blending the geologic history with human impact and interesting information
This mountain may have had the lowest latitude ski resort ever (and the 2nd highest after a Bolivian glacier). That's only based on a few German sources and the ski resort didn't last long. The glacier is almost fully melted now.
@@TheGeoModels can you do a video of the exposed mantle a la the Tablelands in Newfoundland? I think there's also an area of exposed mantle in New Guinea as well? would be exciting to see that peridotite up on the surface it's also pretty Appalachian
@@laminator221 Isn't Australia's subantarctic Macquarie Island exposed mantle as well? My skull is the only bone I've ever broken though, plus I do lots of drugs, so don't take my word on it... 🤷♂
I know you taken paint tips before. So here's another. For times that you wanna demonstrate a layer moving you can outline that section and then drag it around. You'd have to touch up the lines after. But that way you can more visually demonstrate it
The gold fields in Alabama, and the mineral areas in North Carolina, seems to go against the idea of sedimentary rock. The titanium mines around Raleigh, NC goes against the idea of erosion, unless the earth was eroded out around the metals, leaving a hot spot. Has anyone added the friction of the plate movement that could cause a hot spot during a major movement event?
I was learning about subduction channels, with regards to their possible being responsible for exhuming high-grade metamorphic rocks from depth. Would this process also involve magmatism, or hydrothermal activity, accounting for the mineralisation here?
Really interesting to learn the geology of it! I learned about the Grasberg mine many years ago for those "not so positive reasons"...seems a common theme with all these New Guinea/Indonesia mines. Government turns a blind eye to uncontrolled release of tailings and horrible treatment of workers, and the vast majority of the wealth goes to foreign companies (Freeport esp egregious...) and don't even help the native country...with widespread accusations of bribery and corruption behind it all. It's all terribly exploitative of people and nature; very sad. But alas, geology was there before any of that so cannot be blamed!
My understanding of the geology here is this likely would have been slab failure magmatism is a fascinating phenomenon I should note that it is the break in the subducted slab with the disconnection of the oceanic Australian slab from the continental shelf with the oceanic section delaminating as the buoyant continental crust rebounds Nick Zentner's A to Z Baja BC series had a really good animation of this failure and ultimately delamination occurring. A similar example where this process is ongoing is Taiwan which has recently been accreted onto the Eurasian plate. In essence you had an ocean volcanic archipelago with the Subduction of the Australian plate which is still ongoing within the Sunda trench. This can in principal lead to some crazy batholith generation so I wouldn't be surprised if there is some extensive batholiths that have been emplaced at depth some tens of kilometers down beneath this mountain range. If Robert Hildebrand is right this may be the mechanism which much of the Sierra Nevada batholith and The Baja Costal Range Pluton complexes formed though this is still controversial. Note that in California the actual events took place 100 to 80 Ma and were only brought to the surface during the last 30 Ma by extensive erosion of many kilometers of rock so its geologists arguing about the specifics of how this went down, but the point is its possible perhaps even probable that their is a Sierra Nevada like batholith complex down there intruded into the delamination zone and welding the former arc onto the Australian continent. And yeah there is apparently a forming subduction zone to the north much as there is in Taiwan via a process known as arc polarity reversal of which these two areas represent the template example by which we interpret the orientation of such volcanic arc rocks. The slab failure melts are apparently chemically distinct from other volcanic/igneous rocks with a different more continental chemical affinity favoring more siliceous melts on average than typical oceanic subduction i.e. they lack the same extent of gabbroic intrusive melts that weigh down oceanic volcanic arcs.
I worked for a company which made a fair bot of its revenue off supplying consumable to the PT Freeport mine on this mountain. Delivering to the shipping company at the port was always interesting. The pipes the slurry is pumped in aren't small, they're around 45-50cm diameter. Along with this there is continuous replacement of conveyor belts and everything else that wears out with use. And yes, there's often trouble in West Papua. It should be an independent and wealthy country based on its mineral wealth, but instead the Indonesian government has continued to brutally oppress the local population.
Having mineral wealth is often a very bad thing for many places. How long does it take to travel by road from the port to the mine? Does the slurry pipe have to stay in constant operation? I can't imagine that shutting it down and refilling/repressurizing it (or whatever) is an easy task...
It’s not in our beloved Appalachians, but what do you think about the land slide in Rancho Palos Verde, CA? What’s going to happen there and how dangerous is it for those people that are living in homes that are slowly sliding down the mountain? I’d love to see one of your awesome Microsoft Paint diagrams to help us understand the dynamics behind the Portuguese Bend landslide.
I might work on that. Interestingly, you can't see too much effect from the currrent movement in available lidar because it's older. Landsliding does produce interesting surface damage that isn't always intuitive. I'll see if I can work one in one of these days.
Bonus fact for viewers: the Earth’s gold likely formed from supernovae and/or colliding neutron stars while the Solar system was just a cloud of gas and dust.
While gold can be made by r process it should be noted that gold can also be made via the s process which occurs in the red giant phase of lower mass stars so I'm not sure what the ratio of gold is between the two. There are many elements which can only be made by r process elements but gold is not one of them.
Yellowstone. 1 Supervolcano caldera. 2/3 of the World's Geysers. It's currently cutting through an even older (Eocene) igneous wonderland full of petrified trees.
I noticed the grey waters of the river on Google Maps before I saw your video, and was shocked when you explained that the colour was due to mine tailings. You seem to be amused by the action of local protesters who tried to blow up the slurry pipeline. Perhaps you should be a little more sympathetic to the people who are affected by such mega projects. Otherwise, kudos for the excellent geology lesson!
Hi there! Thanks a lot for your interesting videos, I enjoy them a lot! ERZBERG // is NOT Dutch, but DEUTSCH // GERMAN and can rougly translatet to ORE-MOUNTAIN ! Erzberg is a location in STYRIA - AUSTRIA where a lot of iron-ore for the Austrian Iron & Steel processing was and still is mined. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erzberg_mine - have fun reading!
@@TheGeoModels Ok, Google Translate is our friend... :) Erts - is for Afrikaans - which is - we all know, a certain dialect of the Dutch language. And it translates into - tata - Ore / / Erz !
NGL, your art skills are a huge part of the value of your channel. The topics are great too of course. As far as RUclips geologists I've seen so far, you have the best freehand diagrams by far.
Thanks! I admit they are the main objective for me. I'm glad folks like them. We have sort of fallen off the algorithm here, but I'll keep after it!
Hoping for a video on the New England hot spot! Any time Wikipedia says "subject of much debate among geoscientists" I hope for a Philip video on it!
Wild that the mountains it created extend from near Montreal to the Atlantic off Massachusetts.
I used to work for a copper refinery and we would refine the Cu/Au/Ag& PtGrp metals out of "copper" anodes from places like this. The copper anodes did not draw much attention in shipment they they were too heavy to steal however they were up to 4% Au sometimes or 4% Silver. As an engineer I would represent the company when we sampled these things to determine the value and settle up. The dollar amounts in a 100 ton lot were staggering. Imagine a railcar gondola filled with 800 pound anodes containing 4% Au. One of my task was to determine how much of this stuff we could feed into the copper plant each day without causing electrochemical complications. This was in the before times and the calcs were done by hand.
Every video is a masterclass. Thank you
Thanks! I try to make them interesting, but I admit it's hard for me to get out of the deepest geology depths to put together a good story. All of my career work has been on movement and change with respect to geology, so it's more about visuals and seeing spatial changes for me. I'll keep at it, though! Thanks again!
@@TheGeoModels the deep geology depths are great with me. I think you do a great job at blending the geologic history with human impact and interesting information
This mountain may have had the lowest latitude ski resort ever (and the 2nd highest after a Bolivian glacier). That's only based on a few German sources and the ski resort didn't last long. The glacier is almost fully melted now.
honey, Phillip posted a new video, yeah it's about gold on an island mountain
I am a great fan of mountainous islands!
@@TheGeoModels can you do a video of the exposed mantle a la the Tablelands in Newfoundland? I think there's also an area of exposed mantle in New Guinea as well? would be exciting to see that peridotite up on the surface
it's also pretty Appalachian
@@laminator221 Isn't Australia's subantarctic Macquarie Island exposed mantle as well? My skull is the only bone I've ever broken though, plus I do lots of drugs, so don't take my word on it... 🤷♂
I guess third times a charm for US-Polynesian relations!
(Sorry, i had an itch i wanted to scratch, love your videos!)
Huh? New Guinea is Melanesian, not Polynesian...
Hispaniola is another tropical island with lots of gold and minerals. Its also divided by 2 countries and shaped somewhat like New Guinea.
Also, mad chicas there. Wild. And they dig for gold!!😂
@@RayzeR_RayE the guys are certainly digging for gold as well. And by gold I mean US citizenship from naive vacationers
GOLD!!
Your content is excellent ! high quality dense info- big fan! Would love to see Newberry caldera video some day
I know you taken paint tips before. So here's another. For times that you wanna demonstrate a layer moving you can outline that section and then drag it around. You'd have to touch up the lines after. But that way you can more visually demonstrate it
This is NOT Appalachian
just a vacation. don’t worry Cumberland gap is upcoming.
I would love to see a video on why Australia is so rich with gold and other precious metals from a topography stand point
Thanks very much. I love plate tectonics. The Grasberg mine is amazing.
It is pretty much one of a kind!
Would be worth a shot at checking out the tailings down the creek a bit you'd think
Wow that actually sounds awesome !
I love your videos. Gold dust. Very little to add - other than box select and ctrl-x is the way to go deleting areas in paint.
I might try that out next time around!
Olivine, baby! *Cracks open a Miller Lite* Hell yeah!
I got that tall Bud can right here
The gold fields in Alabama, and the mineral areas in North Carolina, seems to go against the idea of sedimentary rock. The titanium mines around Raleigh, NC goes against the idea of erosion, unless the earth was eroded out around the metals, leaving a hot spot. Has anyone added the friction of the plate movement that could cause a hot spot during a major movement event?
The art skills man are great to understanding what you speak of!
I was learning about subduction channels, with regards to their possible being responsible for exhuming high-grade metamorphic rocks from depth. Would this process also involve magmatism, or hydrothermal activity, accounting for the mineralisation here?
Very cool video, thank you brother.
Thanks for watching!
theres gold in them hills! 💰⚜️👑
Really interesting to learn the geology of it! I learned about the Grasberg mine many years ago for those "not so positive reasons"...seems a common theme with all these New Guinea/Indonesia mines. Government turns a blind eye to uncontrolled release of tailings and horrible treatment of workers, and the vast majority of the wealth goes to foreign companies (Freeport esp egregious...) and don't even help the native country...with widespread accusations of bribery and corruption behind it all. It's all terribly exploitative of people and nature; very sad. But alas, geology was there before any of that so cannot be blamed!
It is the sort of geology that you just won't keep people away from once enough of them know about it!
New england hot spot, i need to know more
My understanding of the geology here is this likely would have been slab failure magmatism is a fascinating phenomenon I should note that it is the break in the subducted slab with the disconnection of the oceanic Australian slab from the continental shelf with the oceanic section delaminating as the buoyant continental crust rebounds
Nick Zentner's A to Z Baja BC series had a really good animation of this failure and ultimately delamination occurring.
A similar example where this process is ongoing is Taiwan which has recently been accreted onto the Eurasian plate. In essence you had an ocean volcanic archipelago with the Subduction of the Australian plate which is still ongoing within the Sunda trench. This can in principal lead to some crazy batholith generation so I wouldn't be surprised if there is some extensive batholiths that have been emplaced at depth some tens of kilometers down beneath this mountain range.
If Robert Hildebrand is right this may be the mechanism which much of the Sierra Nevada batholith and The Baja Costal Range Pluton complexes formed though this is still controversial. Note that in California the actual events took place 100 to 80 Ma and were only brought to the surface during the last 30 Ma by extensive erosion of many kilometers of rock so its geologists arguing about the specifics of how this went down, but the point is its possible perhaps even probable that their is a Sierra Nevada like batholith complex down there intruded into the delamination zone and welding the former arc onto the Australian continent.
And yeah there is apparently a forming subduction zone to the north much as there is in Taiwan via a process known as arc polarity reversal of which these two areas represent the template example by which we interpret the orientation of such volcanic arc rocks. The slab failure melts are apparently chemically distinct from other volcanic/igneous rocks with a different more continental chemical affinity favoring more siliceous melts on average than typical oceanic subduction i.e. they lack the same extent of gabbroic intrusive melts that weigh down oceanic volcanic arcs.
I worked for a company which made a fair bot of its revenue off supplying consumable to the PT Freeport mine on this mountain. Delivering to the shipping company at the port was always interesting. The pipes the slurry is pumped in aren't small, they're around 45-50cm diameter. Along with this there is continuous replacement of conveyor belts and everything else that wears out with use.
And yes, there's often trouble in West Papua. It should be an independent and wealthy country based on its mineral wealth, but instead the Indonesian government has continued to brutally oppress the local population.
Having mineral wealth is often a very bad thing for many places.
How long does it take to travel by road from the port to the mine? Does the slurry pipe have to stay in constant operation? I can't imagine that shutting it down and refilling/repressurizing it (or whatever) is an easy task...
There is a good documentary on yt about how they discovered and made the road up to this mine its amazing.
Always wondered about Formosa and it’s pre-20th century history….
Papua New Guinea has some amazing coffee mostly all of it being organic the plant variety is from the Jamaica blue Mountain plant
Read about this in a Neal Stephenson novel. Forget the name of it. It also mentioned finding it via the tailings in the river.
New upload, insta click 👍
Island with a mountain top mine? Reminds me of LOTR.
0-14,000 ft in one day would probably give you one of the edemas if you stuck around for long.
It’s not in our beloved Appalachians, but what do you think about the land slide in Rancho Palos Verde, CA? What’s going to happen there and how dangerous is it for those people that are living in homes that are slowly sliding down the mountain? I’d love to see one of your awesome Microsoft Paint diagrams to help us understand the dynamics behind the Portuguese Bend landslide.
I might work on that. Interestingly, you can't see too much effect from the currrent movement in available lidar because it's older. Landsliding does produce interesting surface damage that isn't always intuitive. I'll see if I can work one in one of these days.
not a day goes by that i dont think about GOLD! 👑⚜️💰TREASURE!
Hell yeah
Bonus fact for viewers: the Earth’s gold likely formed from supernovae and/or colliding neutron stars while the Solar system was just a cloud of gas and dust.
While gold can be made by r process it should be noted that gold can also be made via the s process which occurs in the red giant phase of lower mass stars so I'm not sure what the ratio of gold is between the two. There are many elements which can only be made by r process elements but gold is not one of them.
@@Dragrath1 This chart from Wikipedia confirms your observation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-process#/media/File:Nucleosynthesis_periodic_table.svg
Hey your damn well joking ain't ya man. That's something only a god sayer would come up with. Na, no way did ya get me bro. Good try tho
Did i hear someone say oil? A gust of wind whispered WoMD? I say Boeing needs more gold nuts and bolts as wittle treat!
After seeing a bunch of these videos I feel like were I'm from, in the US, is geologically pretty boring lol.
Where's that? You can just about always find something...
Yellowstone.
1 Supervolcano caldera.
2/3 of the World's Geysers.
It's currently cutting through an even older (Eocene) igneous wonderland full of petrified trees.
Oh man I would love to see a video on Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Or the Caribbean in General.
40 seconds ago lfg
dannnnggggggggggggggg!
I noticed the grey waters of the river on Google Maps before I saw your video, and was shocked when you explained that the colour was due to mine tailings. You seem to be amused by the action of local protesters who tried to blow up the slurry pipeline. Perhaps you should be a little more sympathetic to the people who are affected by such mega projects. Otherwise, kudos for the excellent geology lesson!
not amused in the least. glad you enjoyed the geology. check out coconut revolution if you aren’t familiar with it.
you and your stories
Mostly just looking for something cool to diagram!
Hi there! Thanks a lot for your interesting videos, I enjoy them a lot! ERZBERG // is NOT Dutch, but DEUTSCH // GERMAN and can rougly translatet to ORE-MOUNTAIN ! Erzberg is a location in STYRIA - AUSTRIA where a lot of iron-ore for the Austrian Iron & Steel processing was and still is mined.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erzberg_mine - have fun reading!
Dozy was definitely Dutch. "Ertsberg." Sort of like Vogelkop vs. Vogelkopf, maybe?
@@TheGeoModels Ok, Google Translate is our friend... :) Erts - is for Afrikaans - which is - we all know, a certain dialect of the Dutch language. And it translates into - tata - Ore / / Erz !